Tuesday
Miles: 9,907
Mood:
Confession #87- I wish I was in marketing.
Isn't spam the most interesting product? How do you suppose that an unpopular yet cheap form of preserved canned meat became the number one Internet topic of the early 21st century? Laws are being created specifically for spam. Companies are spending millions of dollars to control spam. There is not a single person in the world who does not know what spam is, except for maybe the Amish.
Somewhere surely there is a spam marketer wringing his hands together. Surely thousands of people, especially young people, buy a can of spam just because the name is associated with junk email. Surely there are cans of spam sitting on computer desks all over the country. How on earth did this meat become the name of junk email?
Okay commuters, quiz time. Here's your question. You are traveling on a 3 lane highway in the middle of rush hour traffic, and have positioned yourself in the middle lane. The lane to your left is traveling at 5mph, the lane to your right is traveling at 10mph. The speed limit is 60mph. The middle lane is completely empty and there is at least 60 yards of clear space between you and the next vehicle giving you plenty of room to travel at any speed you want to. What speed should you maintain?
A: 5mph
B: 15mph
C: 60mph
D: Stop in the middle of the road and enjoy your Starbucks
Have your answer yet? The red dodge pickup behind me answered C.
He failed. When you are in the middle of 2 stopped lanes, you want to be going just a shade over the speed they are going. Why? Because at any moment someone can and probably will jump into your lane to take advantage of your situation, with or without looking first. If you are going 60, you are going to be dead.
So I answered B. Much to the anger of the guy behind me who rode my tail until we got to the slower traffic ahead. But at least my front end is still attached to my vehicle.
Some people are so stupid.
PS: The biggest joke is the scantron test, which you have just taken. There are always 5 bubbles, A-E. But teachers only use A-D. And, probably because they are underpaid, teachers are unable to come up with 3 reasonably logical incorrect answers so one of them is always idiotic and can immediately be eliminated. Leaving you with 3 possible answers. So you have a 33% chance of getting it right just by guessing. So how in the world are our kids test scores so low? Seriously.
funny, interrresting and bloddy danm good written 
i look forwards for more, keep em coming
